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Oil pricing itself out
Billions of people loudly celebrated the arrival of 2008 Monday night and Tuesday morning, but the first big news of the new year had a quieting effect. Because static world production starkly contrasts with rapidly increasing world demand, the price of crude oil surpassed $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time.
Stale message
David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times
The most impressive thing about Mitt Romney is his clarity of mind. When he set out to pursue his party's nomination, he studied the contours of the Republican coalition and molded himself to its forms.
Ron Kantowski hopes UNLV learns from Kansas’ remarkable turnaround
By Ron Kantowski
A few hours from now, providing you are reading this over toast and coffee, the Kansas football team -- the 11-1 Kansas football team -- will play Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl, which pays a cool $17 million to its participating teams.
Museum plans arresting experience
Sun Staff
‘Mob Museum’ to take visitors’ mug shots, read them Miranda warnings before doors clang shut behind them
An uncaring president
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Health insurance program for poor children will continue but not be expanded
With many undecided, Democrats sum it up
By Michael Mishak
Karen Hoyt has lived in Iowa for the past 35 years, but has never until now participated in the political circus that descends on her state every four years. A caucus is an obscure political process on its own, but combined with the bone-chilling temperatures that swept here Wednesday, it's a recipe for political abandonment.
Founder recaps Freshmen years
By Jerry Fink
In a world where fame often is fleeting, this is the 60th year the Four Freshmen have been harmonizing their smooth jazz and pop melodies.
Family full of jocks spurs UNLV guard
By Rob Miech
After considerable stalling, UNLV freshman guard Kendall Wallace is finally shifting into the correct gears with considerable help from Aunt Joan.
Why picture from Iowa is distorted
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Why picture from Iowa is distorted
You get what you pay for
If UNLV is to ever achieve its stated goal of becoming a top-tier research university, it will need to increase the number of outstanding students and faculty on campus. Unfortunately, it may be shorting itself of both.
On taxes, Democrat Rangel’s a bit of a Reaganite
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On taxes, Democrat Rangel’s a bit of a Reaganite
Harrah’s: Slump hasn’t hit us
By Liz Benston
Consumers nationwide may be tightening their purse strings but they're still opening their wallets at Harrah's properties, the company's top executive said recently.
Egypt eyes cash from tut stuff
By Alexandra Berzon
In the deep recesses of the Luxor, visitors pay $9.99 to view replicas of the contents of King Tutankhamen's ancient burial tomb as it was discovered in 1922, including a gilded cow's head, a gold-covered depiction of the jackal-headed Egyptian god Anubis, and minitombs that held the bodies of premature babies.
Too much royalty in the race
Maureen Dowd, a columnist for The New York Times
Edith Wessel, an 80-year-old white-haired retired nurse, moved slowly up the aisle with her walker after listening to Hillary make her pitch. She told one of the Hillary volunteers that she had “great admiration” for the senator, but also great doubts about whether her strong negatives would sink her in the general election.
Jobs safe at Health and Human Services, but cuts will still hurt
By Cy Ryan
The Health and Human Services Department, the biggest agency in state government, must reduce its budget by $78 million but won't make any layoffs in doing so.

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